Platte River
10 best books like Platte River (Rick Bass): Indian Country, No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings, Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories, The Ransom of Russian Art, Gallatin Canyon, The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Peru, The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology, Wittgenstein's Lolita and The Iceman, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 0140130233 |
One does not sell the land the People walk on -- Crazy Horse
Peter Matthiessen is one part artist, one part anthropologist, and one spiritual seeker. Many of his non-fiction books (among them The Tree Where Man Was Born, The Snow Leopard, and Men's Lives chronicle the history and lament the slow...
No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0679740074 |
A VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES ORIGINAL
A literary event: Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the recently discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death and published here in book form for the first time.
Call If You Need Me includes...
| Author | Robert Shapard |
| ISBN | 0879052651 |
Here are 70 of the very best short-short stories of recent years, including contributions from such contemporary writers as Raymond Carver, Leonard Michaels and John Updike; a few modern masters such as Hemingway and Cheever; and an assortment of talented new young writers. Sudden Fiction brilliantly...
| Author | John McPhee |
| ISBN | 0374524505 |
In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground "unofficial" artists, and brought it out himself or arranged to have it illegally shipped to the United States. Norton Dodge visited the apartments of unofficial...
| Author | Thomas McGuane |
| ISBN | 1400041562 |
A superb collection of stories--his first in twenty years--from one of our most acclaimed literary figures, whom "The New York Times Book Review" has called "a writer of the first magnitude."
Place exerts the power of destiny in these ten stories of lives uncannily recognizable and unforgettably...
| Author | Jim Harrison |
| ISBN | 0671744526 |
Across the odd contours of the American landscape-Jim Harrison's country--its natives search for that which isn't quite irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the miraculously preserved body of an Indian...
| Author | Gordon Lish |
| ISBN | 1568580851 |
I never wanted to be the one who I am.
A man cannot go to sleep. He has seen something on television. She says he will have to wait until morning when someone else will be there. Six hours. There were men on a rooftop and they are fighting to the death, living to the death. They are the prisoners or did...
The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology
| Author | William Kittredge |
| ISBN | 0295969741 |
This book is an anthology of some of the greatest stories and storytellers of the American West. Through eight chapters and over 800 pages, 150 writers present scores of myths, stories, poems, essays, and journals that document Montana's significant literary tradition. The selections range from...
Wittgenstein's Lolita and The Iceman
| Author | William Gay |
| ISBN | 0976520222 |
so people have been telling me and telling me to read WILLIAM* gay, and until now, i just haven't. what is wrong with me, i wonder?? because he is everything i love, if this one short story is any indication of his themes and style. he does what i like, and he does it very well.
yeah, i'm reviewing another...
| Author | Melinda Moustakis |
| ISBN | 0820338931 |
In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 0449912175 |
The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses,...
| Author | Dayton Duncan |
| ISBN | 0803266278 |
"In this splendid book a gifted observer and a terrific idea have come together in a real love match. In 1990, a century after the census bureau's famous observation of the frontier's imminent end, Dayton Duncan set out in an aging GMC Suburban to visit a large sampling of counties outside Alaska that...
| Author | Alison Hawthorne Deming |
| ISBN | 1571313486 |
Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our companions in evolution are leaving the world — both as physical beings and spiritual symbols — and not returning. In this collection of linked essays,...
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol 1
| Author | John Lloyd Stephens |
| ISBN | 0486209261 |
It takes a lot for me to give a book five stars. I'd give this one six, if I could. First, however, let me state that this book isn't for everyone. I read it because, as a student of Maya history for 25 years, it's required. I should have read it sooner. It's the true story of two men who traveled through the Maya...
Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
| Author | Barry Lopez |
| ISBN | 1400075122 |
In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez—the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers—evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.
An anthropologist traveling...
Loren McIntyre's account of how in 1971, after years of searching, he discovered the source of the Amazon. Local rumour had it that only the Mayoruma tribe, deep in the Amazon interior, could lead McIntyre to his goal, and he claims that he communicated with tribe's headman by telepathy before reaching...
The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la
The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la is a breathtaking account of the ill-fated October 1998 expedition of an American whitewater kayaking team who traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." For Wick Walker...
